About

What this is.

The notebook

Super Formula Lights on iRacing, driven in VR. This site is the notebook for that work: setup tests, lap data, and track notes from real sessions. Every number on it was driven and measured.

The rig

DriverRussell Adams
SimiRacing
SeriesSuper Formula Lights
CarDallara 324
DisplayVR
HardwareMOZA Racing
Lap referenceGarage61

Why it transfers

The wheel is direct-drive and the brake is a load cell. That is the same force feedback and the same pedal pressure a real car gives you. The physics are the reason real teams and drivers practice on iRacing. The tire and aero model under this notebook is the one a race engineer reads. Driven in VR, seated, braking against real resistance.

If you want to get fast

Shoutout to Tamas Simon. If you want to get fast in the Super Formula Lights, I can't recommend him or his setups enough. He also posts hotlaps and onboards on YouTube.

Reading the notebook

  1. Keeper: the setup currently on the car; the one the lap times kept.
  2. Rejected: a change that lost time. Its numbers stay on the record.
  3. Theoretical: the session's best sectors stitched together.
  4. Reference / gap to alien: the fastest known lap for the combo, and the distance to it.
  5. Setup tests change one variable at a time, with weather held constant.
  6. Units are metric: mm, N/mm, deg, kPa, km/h.

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